

So that concludes the zoo! After the zoo we went to the Anchorage harbor/port that was also behind the Alaska railroad and we saw several trains come in, some carrying passengers, others carrying freight, along with some ships carrying freight.
Here are some pictures:
The view
I love him :)
Our Hotel (the tall one), looking up from the harbor, we stayed at the Anchorage Hilton
I was being goofy.
We saw a fisherman that caught a 35 pound king salmon. He was very proud of it, and I wanted to get a picture of it to show my daddy!
The longest boat ramp i've ever seen!
The other half of the boat ramp
Our fiery red chariot! Chevy Cobalt. Sorry it's sideways.
One of the many pictures I took from the window of the car as we drove by. Ah, so pretty.
Uriah in action at the zoo.
Later that night we decided to go and eat some local seafood. If you don't know already, I am not a huge fan of seafood, but I tried it anyway, and wanted to see if it really was better in Alaska since it was so fresh. I tried the Fish and Chips (I know, way to go to the extreme Lindsay) but I had the Halibut. It was pretty tasty. Uriah had snow crab legs which I did try, and they were just okay. I could sustain myself on them if I had to live on a deserted island. So this was Uriah's first go at cracking crab legs, and he needed a little help. I'd only seen it done on Martha Stewart (haha) so along with my and the waiters help, he got it down pretty good. Here are some pictures that will make you laugh: Look closely, his claw hand is holding a teeny fork.
The next day we had another leisurely day and had heard that there was a really good hot dog stand outside of our hotel that sold reindeer hot dogs. I don't know what a reindeer is exactly...is it Caribou? Eh, I dunno, but it sure was delicious. We sat in a little park on the 'strip' and ate it with our chips and hovering seagulls that were eying my bag of chips. I didn't share.
Cowboy Berry:
So after lunch and his conference was over, I reeeeeeeeally wanted to go horseback riding...we found a place that did guided horseback guides in a nearby ski/park area. We were the only other people there, aside from the guide, so it was only a 3 horse ride. That was awesome, because the guide felt alot more comfortable doing alot more fun things...like RUNNING! Poor Uriah i'm sure wasn't as enthused about it as I was, but he hung in there like a champ. Another thing that I was SO EXCITED about was that I got to ride a DRAFT HORSE!!! He was the biggest horse there and I asked about him and what kind he was and apparently alot of people are scared of his size so they don't like to ride him, but knowing me, I wanted to ride him so they let me. I was in heaven. Nothing could have smacked the permanent smile off my face during that whole 2 hour ride. I was riding with the camera and took a few blurry pictures: Yes, I wore a helmet, though I normally don't, I figured i'm on a strange horse, in Alaska with bears and moose, so who knows what could happen. We both wanted to wear them and get hat hair rather than brain damage should anything happen
Mack was so huge that you couldn't even see Uriah's horse!
See my feet? They actually touched his body...He was so big, that my legs didn't hang BELOW his body like on Tuff. It was a fun experience!
There we go, now you can see Uriah on his horse "Phoenix"
Mack was a 17 hand Percheron gelding. He was also a plow horse so he didn't neck rein which was hard to get used to. I had to 'plow rein' him. He was a good boy though. It was really wierd in a good way to ride such a big horse and feel such a HUGE stride. When he ran it was so smooth like floating on a cloud. I will always remember Mack :) He was such a good boy.
We asked the guide if he ever saw any wildlife in the area and he said that he's seen moose before and some have seen bear but he never has....Later on that week when I got up in the morning, and as always saw the newspaper slid underneath our door I learned from the paper that a girl on a bicycle was attacked by a brown bear 2 days after our ride and was terribly injured but was going to be okay. It was the 2nd bear attack in 3 weeks in that area. The same area we went riding on. Thank goodness nothing happened.
We also played a round of golf in a little 'castle' indoor putt putt thing, it was by far the most ghetto golf course i've ever been on....but we had fun, I almost beat Uriah...the score was 79-82. Just for the record, on a par 3, he took 18 shots...just so you know. :) Here are some pictures we took: I didn't get any good pictures of Uriah losing during the first half of the game. But tons of pictures of me losing...of course...
On the way out of the game, there was this cute little bunny, having dinner. He didn't seem at all bothered by me, so I got a couple of shots.
Next we went to get some sunglasses as instructed for our 'flightseeing' tour in Talkeetna the next day...Don't worry, I didn't buy these glasses, they were hideous on me and we wanted to get a funny picture. Uriah also bought a pair of glasses. His first pair! He looked so handsome in them :)
Waiting on everyone to board the train for our trainride to 'Talkeetna' a very small and old town North of Anchorage.
Our view of the front of the train in First Class :)
These are some of the beautiful sights we saw on the train ride up... I have SO many that I want to share, but then that would make this blog about 34 pages long. We probably took 1000 pictures...seriously. SO BEAUTIFUL.
As you can see, it was a very dreary wet day, so our airplane tour over the mountains and landing on a glacier was cancelled. We instead went on a jet boat river tour of the Talkneetna river and the Suceenta river. (I know I probably said it wrong and butchered the spelling, but you get the point)
While we were riding along in the boat we were able to see a Bald Eagle in a tree, and later another in the nest with her little Eaglet...sorry if these pictures are out of order.
And here is a kitti-wake rookery. It is a nesting area for these birds that smelled kinda like a chicken-coup. There were SO many of them!! This video does an appropriate job of giving you a sense of what it was like instead of a picture...
This concludes part 1, please check back with Part 2 later!!! (Hopefully in the next day or 2) for more pictures and video's.
Thanks for checkin't it out if you made it down this far!
Love,
Lindsay
1 comment:
Wow Linz, check you out! Thanks for sharing these awesome pictures and making the rest of us super duper jealous. Whatever, I've got smilin baby pictures that make hearts melt..so there. Thanks for letting me know about Angie's blog too, I've really been following it now and it hit really close to home since our due dates were really close together. Anyway, hope to talk to you soon. Tell U we say hello. Loves, Jess
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